Re: columbine now leaf miners
- Subject: Re: [SG] columbine now leaf miners
- From: J* A* B*
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:42:12 -0500
At 06:08 6/04/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>> Mine got leaf minor...all mine do. I just ignore it until it gets
>> on
>> my nerves and then remove the foliage or wait until they need to be
>> cut back anyway. Oddly enough, this spring a couple of plants had
>> it
>> so bad they looked variegated...kinda interesting. Dratted little
>
>I have the same problem with mine. I also just cut off the undesired
>foilage.
>OT in the sunny part of my yard I also get the leaf miners on the hollyhocks
>and nastursiums.
I grow Weeping Birch trees as the main tree on my lot and they are subject
to leaf miners big time. The only thing that controls them is a soil
drench as they are leafing out of Cygon 2E, so well I am doing that I
make a mild dilute of the Cygon (about 10%) and do a soil drench around my
Columbine to protect them against 'borers and miners' and it seems to work
very
well, since I have started doing this I have not lost one Columbine
to insect... however my gardening technique has made a few disappear.
Jennifer
